Hi,
I have the same sil3114 based controller, installed in a dual Opteron box. I have installed Solaris x86 and have had no problem with it, however I hardly used that box with Solaris as my installation was only to try out Solaris on my Opteron worksation. Instead, on that workstation I constantly run Linux, and twice in a few months I came across (while running linux Fedora) several I/O errors on the SATA disk attached to that controller. I though at first that the hard drive was gone, but then I swapped that controller with a sil3112 and the I/O errors stopped. I swapped back the sil3114 and had no errors since. I reckon that it might have been due to one of the SATA cables (power or data?) not making a perfect contact. SATA connectors are of extremely poor quality and they fail to hold in place as well as the older IDE or SCSI or molex power connector. I noticed as well that they crack easily if inadvertently pulled or pushed while working inside the computer case. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
